The VXL Project

Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:
> This is a delicate issue considering that allowing some of these things
> can potentially inhibit use of VXL for some current users. Therefore, we
> would like to request your help in getting a sense of what platforms is
> VXL used in. To that end, could you please reply to this email indicating
> 
>   - operating system you work on
>   - compiler and version you use
>   - if you work in a group, how much of the group uses the same
> platform? what other platforms are they using VXL on?

An important client of VXL is ITK (www.itk.org) which I think still 
claims to support VS 6, though there has also been discussion to drop 
it.  However, ITK uses only vnl and enough of vxl to support it.

Dropping support for VS 6 does not have to mean all of VXL.  We could 
document which libraries or features work with which compilers.

-Brad

Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva schrieb:

>   - operating system you work on
>   - compiler and version you use
>   - if you work in a group, how much of the group uses the same
> platform? what other platforms are they using VXL on?

I still use MSVC6 for working with VXL on Windows. On Linux, I use 
whatever is provided by the latest distro that is installed (currently 
gcc4.02). I don't know if VXL currently compiles with either the free 
optimizing compiler provided by the Microsoft .NET SDK, or with the 
newly-released Microsoft Visual C++ Express IDE. I guess this would be a 
big plus for example for students who work with VXL (most students will 
have Windows on their home computers), or others who just want to "try 
out" VXL without buying Visual Studio 2005.


Markus

At the Mobile Robotics Lab in McGill University, I am currently the only 
person using VXL for real-time target tracking and visual servoing. VXL 
runs under Linux, and I have used gcc3.3 and recently been using gcc 
4.0.x under Ubuntu Linux. Some other groups have interest in using VXL 
as well, and it is likely they'll be using the same platform as myself.

Regards,
-Junaed-

We are 3 persons using VXL (together with VTK btw). Currently our platform
are:

- Windows XP
- MSVC++ 6 SP 5

We are planning to upgrade to the newest MS compiler (whatever that is) in
the future. However, we currently have some hardware related code that
only compiles with VC++ 6.0. 

On the other hand we are currently not doing any updates of our VXL
installation. So I guess that if VXL removes VC++ 6.0 from the list of
supported compilers, we will adapt.

Cheers,
Rasmus